On the Use of AI
Things that raise questions about efficacy of AI…either in a good way or bad way.
On the Use of AI
In the realm of AI ... machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer.
Article
Joseph Weizenbaum, “ELIZA: A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine,” Communications of the ACM 9, no. 1 (January 1966).
The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls.
– Whitehead
Philosophical Essays
Seems to be what LLM proponents believe
So far, over the past 2 years, I have invested more time trying to make genAI work for me than what genAI has saved me. Maybe by a 2-3x factor. But I will keep trying.
Francois here speaks to coding, but this estimate mirrors my experience with non-coding tasks.
Nature paper demonstrates that training AI on AI-generated data eventually produces nonsense (as expected?).
Uhhhhh more questions re: math?
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I can’t decide if I love this or hate it
A single Nvidia GPU consumes the same energy as a typical U.S. home
Pretty wild stat https://t.co/Xw91ne4Sm4
energy consumption continues to be a problem
we removed the AI-powered search from our docs because it was unreliable and made up fake features
still waiting for the production-grade llm that can reliably produce data without hallucinations
long way to go
Y Combinator winner/CEO, developing a new email marketing system.